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What happens when an opponent plays a creature if I have a Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite in play ("opponent's creatures get -2/-2") and my opponent has Pantlaza in play? Does Pantlaza get the trigger off the creature's original stats or off the number resulting from Elesh's reduction?

Hey there! I'm new to paper MTG and play Commander with my playgroup. We've been having a debate about whether the total value of a deck really indicates how strong it is. One of my friends argues that value doesn't equal strength, but I can't help but wonder when I keep losing to a deck with a higher price tag than mine.

I've been playing 1v1 games with my friend for a few months now, so I know their deck almost as well as mine. It can be frustrating when I can predict their moves but still can't win with my basic deck. I understand the point that a couple of expensive cards in a deck won't guarantee a win, but when a deck is upgraded with so many pricey cards, it feels like a whole different ball game.

For reference, we both started with precons, and both upgraded. I spent $20, they spent $120+. Inputing my deck list in a deck value calculator returns $103, which is lower than their upgrade alone lol

I don't mind losing when the match is good. I hate losing when I'm always on the backfoot and can't do much besides hoping to survive another turn

What are your thoughts on this? I'd love to hear different perspectives on the relationship between deck value and strength in the game.

edit: I received more responses than I expected, so I'll need some time to go through them all and respond. Thank you in advance!

Could you please clarify for me? If I activate an ability that has a cost and then copy it, do I need to pay the cost again for the copy to resolve?

For example, the ability of [[Isareth, the Awakener]]. If I decide to attack and pay X mana to reanimate a creature, do I also have to pay again if I copy the ability? And if so, am I able to pay a different amount, considering that the source of the copying states, "You can choose new targets for the copy"?

A second question is for a card like [[Drana, Liberator of Malakir]]. If she deals direct damage and her ability triggers, would the +1/+1 counter be placed on each attacking creature, including herself, twice, were I to copy it?

I'm not sure if it's necessary to mention, but I am new to this, I am using [[The Peregrine Dynamo]] to copy those abilities.

Thank you for your help in clarifying this!

I've already made some of them (loyalty and +1/+1) but they don't convince me. I'm looking to remake those and also add -1/-1, ability counters, and a way to differentiate between +1/+1 counters and "creatures get +x/+x”. Would be nice to also add some counters for Commander Tax and for tokens (for when I have multiple Treasures, for example).

Before I spend a whole day designing them, I wanted to see if anyone got something already!

Since I know the question is gonna pop-up anyway, I'll answer now: I'd rather print and glue them on paper than buy plastic dice. Seen some non-plastic on Etsy, but they're too expensive for my liking. Printing them at home is gonna cost me basically nothing so I'd prefer that!

Thank you in advance!

When I first installed Lutris I was just starting with Linux, so I went with the .deb since pop shop showed me that first... now I have several games and hundreds of hours of playtime and I'd rather keep everything (both playtime and Wine configurations... prefixes and all) as is but also move to flatpak since updating via flatpak is easier (just update through pop shop).

Besides, I'd love to know how to backup everything in case something goes wrong, since I like keeping track of play time but apparently there's not an easy way to manually edit it for each game? If there was I'd just make a fresh install and then edit it myself

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn't do differently.

It now throws an error when mounting a drive: error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/user/local disk 1: unknown error when mounting (udisks-error-quark, 0)

This drive doesn't have anything I was using on it, since it's a media storage drive. I booted up Windows on my second drive and it can see and access this one without problems. How to fix?

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No body, all title

edit: actually, I can access other communities on .world, which means I'm probably banned? How to check and contact mods about it? Pretty sure I haven't broken any rules

edit 2: found the modlog and I haven't found anything about mods banning me

I'm in the market for a new monitor and I wanted to get a ultrawide, I almost exclusively play videogames on my PC. I found some good candidates, but because of price I'm heavily leaning towards a flat panel instead of a curved one, namely AOC U34G3X.

Is a flat ultrawide panel much worse than a curved one for gaming? I've used flat panels since they started selling it, but the longer diagonal scares me a bit. I'm currently using a 27" flat panel.

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions!

My current setup is pretty dated, but still doing alright for what I'm playing, although I'd like better framerates and a bit more "futureproofing" for when I start playing the more demanding games in my backlog.

Parts are:

• R5 2600x;
• 2060 Super;
• 16GB @ 3466 16-18-18-18-36;
• 1440p 144Hz monitor.

Currently playing The Witcher 3 Next Gen at medium details, DLSS set to quality and no RT. I get 50-80 fps, which isn't too bad, but I'm aiming for high details and 120+ fps.

The most resource intensive game I have in my backlog is probably TLoU (or RDR2, or CP2077), and I'd like to play those at high/120 fps too, not really interested in RT.

At the moment I'm looking to get a 7800XT.

Do you think I can get away wih just a GPU + PSU upgrade, or would the 2600x cause too great a bottleneck at target resolution/details/fps to ignore?

For the GPU I'm considering a 7800XT instead of a 6800XT mainly because of the lower power consumption and slightly higher performance. Also the 7800XT comes with a very neat backplate plus GPU support bracket.

Issue is I don't know if that justifies a ~15% price increase (price right now is $600 equivalent for the 6800XT and $690 equivalent for the 7800XT). I do like the looks of the 7800XT a bit more though lol so if current CPU and RAM can work with the new GPU at target resolution/details/fps, and there aren't huge drawbacks to getting the 7800X instead of the 6800XT, I'm willing to spend those extra $90 on the former.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance to anyone replying!